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Vedove di Camus
“Camus's Widows” (title translated by AI)
Elena Rui (born 1980)
English editions
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On 4 January 1960 the car driven by the publisher Michel Gallimard crashes into a plane tree on a road in Burgundy, and Albert Camus, who had won the Nobel Prize three years earlier, dies instantly. While the world mourns one of the great intellectuals of the century, four women suddenly find themselves 'widows' of the man they loved: his wife Francine Faure, the actress Catherine Sellers, the young Danish painter Mette Ivers and Maria Casarès, the great actress he called 'the One'. Their four voices, built from letters and manuscripts, tell of love, loss and grief, and portray Camus as husband, lover and writer.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 168 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, Love (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- France, 1960
- First published
- 2025 by L’Orma
- Author's age
- 45 when first published
- ISBN
9791254761236 (original)